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The Politics and Price of Free Speech in American Schools
Apr 17, 2025Higher education in the U.S. faces an unprecedented storm of political and financial upheaval, highlighting critical tensions around free speech, academic freedom, and institutional integrity. Columbi...
Fit and Grit: Rethinking How Colleges Define and Pursue Excellence
Apr 03, 2025This week, we’re reexamining old assumptions about merit and fit in higher education admissions with Emily Chase Coleman, co-founder and CEO of HAI Analytics, a company that helps colleges and univers...
Mass Firings & Campus Crackdowns: U.S. Academia Under Fire
Mar 20, 2025We’re rounding up and analyzing education news headlines this week on 16:1: The U.S. Department of Education is now half its former self—with 1,300 staffers gone and lawsuits brewing over what critics...
Degrees on Arrival: The Steamboat Ladies
Mar 06, 2025This episode features the story of how a group of more than 700 pioneering women in the UK smashed through barriers to higher education and claimed degrees from Trinity College Dublin. Denied their de...
Senate Bills, Data Vaults, & Climate Classes
Feb 20, 2025This week’s news headline roundup covers the following stories: Proposed Ohio Senate Bill 1 higher education legislation targets DEI initiatives, faculty rights, and funding, sparking fierce debates a...
Jerome Bruner: Shaping Education Through the Cognitive Revolution
Feb 06, 2025Explore the life and work of Jerome Bruner, a pioneering psychologist, multidisciplinarian, and educator who transformed the study of learning. Discover how Bruner’s early experiences, including his ...
Data Privacy, App Bans, and Keeping up with the College-Bound
Jan 23, 2025This week in education news headlines, we cover: Australia has banned teenagers under 16 from using social media apps, with a one-year grace period for platforms to implement age verification measures...
Confronting Educational Censorship & Securing Academic Freedom: A Conversation with Jeremy C. Young of PEN America
Jan 09, 2025Confronting Educational Censorship & Securing Academic Freedom: A Conversation with Jeremy C. Young of PEN AmericaIn our first episode of 2025, we’re talking with special guest Jeremy C. Young, the di...
Red Bricks, Revolution, and Renewal
Dec 05, 2024In our final episode of 2024, the 16:1 hosts share reflections and takeaways from the 2024 NCTE National Conference held in Boston, Massachusetts. The event was inspiring and energizing, featuring not...
Education at the Ballot Box: 2024 U.S. General Election Debrief
Nov 21, 2024What Could a Trump 2.0 Administration Mean for Teachers and Students Across the Country? This week we’re taking a hard look at the potential implications of a second term for former President Donald T...